Talia Backman
@taliamycota.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Mary & William in the TIDAL lab๐ฑ๐โ๐ซ
I asked my PI for tape dispensers and this shows up the next day ๐โ๐ซ
@geoffzahn.bsky.social
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Postdoc = open to new experiences and expanding my skills ๐ค
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Hernรกn A. Burbano
2 months ago
Our new collaborative work led by
@taliamycota.bsky.social
Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@cloeucl.bsky.social
& the Karasov Lab (
tkarasovlab.org
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@uofubiology.bsky.social
and collaborators:
@plantricia.bsky.social
et al.
tinyurl.com/5yx2wmz5
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Eric Topol
7 months ago
This is wild! Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Geoff Zahn
7 months ago
Any students want to apply for this to study microbiome assembly processes with simulations and microcosms?? Hit me up!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?utm_source=Simons+Foundation&utm_campaign=f0b7b0634b-2026_LS_GRAD_FELLOW_IN_ECO_%26_EVO&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dea4c45f3e-746274027
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Dmitri Petrov
8 months ago
Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simonโs Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions.
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?utm_source=Simons+Foundation&utm_campaign=f0b7b0634b-2026_LS_GRAD_FELLOW_IN_ECO_%26_EVO&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dea4c45f3e-746484893
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Geoff Zahn
10 months ago
Yes!!! Note: -Lab meetings will be held at an oyster bar (I'm buying) -We have several cool systems to work in -Flexible mentorship to match your goals -Lots of
#mycology
kitsh -Highly collaborative -Williamsburg is cute as hell
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Iโll be starting a postdoc in the TIDAL lab in the Fall, come do science with us!!๐งฌ๐งซ
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Front cover!!!!!!!!!!! :โ)
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Wonderful podcast describing our Science paper! (2nd half)
bit.ly/3T5RQaF
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TWiM 316: Food addiction and the gut microbiome
TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacter...
https://bit.ly/3T5RQaF
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Check out our review on the evolution of tailocins!
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins
Phage tail-like bacteriocins (tailocins) are protein complexes produced by bacteria with the potential to kill their neighbors. Widespread throughout Gram-negative bacteria, tailocins exhibit extreme ...
https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(24)00086-6
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I started out thinking I was getting into bacteriophage research that ended up taking an exciting turn to researching something I had never heard of before studying them- tailocins :) Check out my PhD work thus far!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A phage tailโlike bacteriocin suppresses competitors in metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria
Bacteria can repurpose their own bacteriophage viruses (phage) to kill competing bacteria. Phage-derived elements are frequently strain specific in their killing activity, although there is limited ev...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado0713
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